Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction.

Roget 855: affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.    not natural, unnatural; self-conscious; maniere; artificial; overwrought, overdone, overacted; euphuist etc. 577.    stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental.    ... show more

Roget 884: boasting etc. v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant [Fr.]; vainglorious etc. (conceited) 880; highfalutin, highfaluting^†; spread-eagle [U.S.].    elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts.    vaunted etc. v.. ... show more

Roget 925: undue; unlawful etc. (illegal) 964; unconstitutional; illicit; unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed^†, unsanctioned, unjustified; unentitled^†, disentitled, unqualified, disqualified; unprivileged, unchartered.    illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false; usurped.    tortious [Law].    undeserved, unmerited, unearned; unfulfilled.    forfeited, disfranchised.    improper; unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly; unbecoming, misbecoming^†; seemless^†; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought of; preposterous, pretentious, would-be.    ... show more

Polish: pretensjonalny

Intended to attract notice and impress others.

synonym: ostentatious.

Roget 880: vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious etc. 882; puffed up, inflated, flushed.    self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente etc. (wrongheaded) 481; wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical^†, overwise^†, pretentious, priggish; egotistic, egotistical; soi-disant etc. (boastful) 884 [Fr.]; arrogant etc. 885.    unabashed, unblushing; unconstrained, unceremonious; free and easy.    ... show more

Roget 882: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty^†, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid etc. (big-sounding) 577; gairish^†, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay etc. (ornate) 847.    splendid, magnificent, sumptuous.    theatrical, dramatic, spectacular; ceremonial, ritual.    solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious, starched.    dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue [Fr.], in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_e, chic.    ... show more

Polish: ostentacyjny

of a display Tawdry or vulgar.

synonym: ostentatious.